| HOME | CAR NEWS | CAR REVIEWS | RACING | AUTOSHOWS | SUBSCRIBE | MARKETPLACE |  Tuesday, January 11, 2011 |  | The 3.6-liter V6 in the Cadillac CTS Coupe is rated at 304 hp.... | | EXECUTIVE EDITOR ROGER HART: The CTS coupe is one of my favorite General Motors products at the moment. I like the look, both inside and out, and I love the way the car drives. Naturally, the CTS-V really ramps up the performance, but with 304 hp underhood in the base model, it's no slouch. While this car was fitted with a six-speed automatic, I think I'd opt for the six-speed manual.... |
|  | | Driving around in the city with a natural-gas-powered car is, in many ways, much easier than driving around in an electric car. In an EV, you are constantly plotting exactly how far each trip is going to take you and where you can plug in when you get there. In an EV, you don't just pull into a ...
|  | | Fiat will not sell its Alfa Romeo unit and plans to relaunch the brand in the United States in late 2012, top Fiat executives said. “We would not sell Alfa even if we were offered tons of money,” Fiat chairman John Elkann told reporters at the Detroit auto show on Monday. Fiat and ...
|  | | Despite three years of lackluster sales, Toyota's Scion youth brand is not in danger of being shut down, Toyota Motor President Akio Toyoda said. “There is no concern, no danger for Scion in the future,” Toyoda said in a roundtable interview with journalists at the Detroit auto show...
|  | | Tesla Motors plans to begin delivering the Model S electric sedan in the second quarter of 2012 and expects to produce about 20,000 units annually, the company said at the Detroit auto show on Monday. Tesla has booked more than 3,000 reservations for the Model S in North America and Europe. The...
|  | | Iconic Motors will begin production of its 2012 AC Roadster in late spring in Detroit, the company said on Tuesday. Iconic says it will build only 100 copies during its first year of production. “We are genuinely excited to begin production on the 2012 Iconic AC Roadster,” Iconic...
|  | | Ferrari says its sales in North America in 2010 set a record. The Italian automaker sold more than 1,750 cars in the U.S. and Canadian markets. That is a gain of almost 20 percent from 2009, Ferrari said on Tuesday. North America produces the most sales for Ferrari. The Ferrari California and ...
|
You May Have Missed...
|  | | Jeep will resurrect a hallowed nameplate--the Grand Wagoneer--in two years.“It's time we gave the market an upper-scale Grand Wagoneer,” Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne said Monday. “You'll see it in January 2013.”The Grand Wagoneer would be a seven-seat SUV built on the same ...
|  | | Kia calls its KV7 concept a modern-day "activity van" that challenges the notion that vans are only for family transportation.The KV7, unveiled on Monday at the Detroit auto show, features a gullwing-style side door combined with a pillar-less front passenger door to open up the entire side of the...
|  | | City dwellers with an active nightlife are the target audience for the Hyundai Curb concept, which was revealed at the Detroit auto show on Monday.Hyundai said that the Curb's styling evolved in part from the new Sonata and Elantra sedans.The Curb has a high-tech interior with neon accents,...
|  | | Honda's ninth-generation Civic will arrive at dealerships this spring, somewhat delayed from the automaker's typical replacement schedule.But Monday's reveal of the Civic concept at the Detroit auto show gives us a good sense of what will land in the showroom.In traditional Honda fashion, the...
|  | | The Hyundai Veloster coupe, which is headed for showrooms later this year, comes with a sizable third door for easy rear-seat access. The car, unveiled on Monday at the Detroit auto show, combines compact-car style with the functionality of a hatchback. Styling for the Veloster drew inspiration...
|  | | Volkswagen Motorsports drivers Nasser Saleh al-Attiyah (Qatar) and Timo Gottschalk (Germany) finished first on the eighth stage in the No. 302 Touareg 3, overtaking teammates Carlos Sainz (Spain) and Lucas Cruz (Spain) in No. 300 for the overall lead in the cars class in the 2011 Dakar Rally....
|  | | Jeep celebrates its 70th anniversary in 2011. The brand will release special editions of each Jeep model to mark the occasion.The anniversary models will arrive in dealerships in the first quarter of this year with one unique color, Bronze Star, in addition to Bright Silver and Black.The...
|  | | The C in Ford's C-segment platform could stand for cash--if things go as the Blue Oval hopes and consumers turn to its range of small vehicles built on similar underpinnings.Executive chairman Bill Ford Jr. said the company expects to turn a profit with its smaller offerings, known as C-segment...
|  | | Details on the Ford Vertrek, the Porsche 918 RSR, the Volkswagen Passat and the Chevrolet Sonic....
|  | | Nissan Motor Co. will return to the Detroit auto show in 2012 after a three-year absence.Nissan Americas chairman Carlos Tavares made the pledge in a statement issued by the Detroit Auto Dealers Association on Sunday.“The amount of new product serves as the direction for the world's economic...
| | 
| CLICK HERE TO UNSUBSCRIBE from the AutoWeek Daily Drive E-mail or to sign up for other AutoWeek e-mail products.
IMPORTANT: Please add AutoWeek.com to your E-mail Address Book to ensure you will continue to receive our newsletters.
Please DO NOT reply to this e-mail. You will not receive a reply if you use this e-mail address.
Crain Communications, 1155 Gratiot Ave. Detroit, MI 48207. | |  | |
No comments:
Post a Comment